A Topic-Independent Method for Scoring Student Essay Content

作者:Nagata Ryo*; Kakegawa Jun ichi; Yabuta Yukiko
来源:IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2010, E93D(2): 335-340.
DOI:10.1587/transinf.E93.D.335

摘要

This paper proposes a topic-independent method for automatically scoring essay content. Unlike conventional topic-dependent methods, it predicts the human-assigned score of a given essay without training essays written to the same topic as the target essay. To achieve this, this paper introduces a new measure called MIDF that measures how important and relevant a word is in a given essay. The proposed method predicts the score relying on the distribution of MIDF. Surprisingly, experiments show that the proposed method achieves an accuracy of 0.848 and performs as well as or even better than conventional topic-dependent methods.

  • 出版日期2010-2

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